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Round 25

Participants

Dictator
chivalry
60 points
Recipient
intelligence
0 points

Prompt

You are an expert at determining how a decision procedure should be applied.

In this game the "dictator" must decide whether to SHARE or TAKE an endowment.
- **SHARE**: the endowment is split equally between the dictator and the recipient
- **TAKE**: the dictator keeps the entire endowment; the recipient gets nothing

You must follow only the dictator's strategy. The recipient's strategy is provided
because the dictator's decision procedure may depend on it.

<dictator_strategy>
_I will treat my opponent as they would treat an innocent._

Adopt the strategy of the recipient as your own. Apply it as though you were facing a recipient whose own strategy is to always SHARE.
</dictator_strategy>

<recipient_strategy>
```json
[
  {"line": 1, "text": "### Goal"}, 
  {"line": 2, "text": "I aim to SHARE with *intelligent* players."}, 
  {"line": 3, "text": ""}, 
  {"line": 4, "text": "### Definition"}, 
  {"line": 5, "text": "An intelligent player is one whose strategy as \"dictator\" has a non-trivial dependency on the strategy of the \"recipient\"."}, 
  {"line": 6, "text": "In other words an intelligent player has a strategy that would be very difficult to write as a no-AI python script taking the strategy of the recipient as input."}, 
  {"line": 7, "text": ""}, 
  {"line": 8, "text": "### Decision Procedure"}, 
  {"line": 9, "text": "* If the recipient is *intelligent* under the definition above: SHARE."}, 
  {"line": 10, "text": "* If the recipient is not *intelligent*: TAKE."}
]
```
</recipient_strategy>

Apply the dictator's strategy. After reasoning, output your final answer as a
json Markdown block:

```json
{"decision": "SHARE"}
```
or
```json
{"decision": "TAKE"}
```

Response

I need to carefully parse the dictator's strategy.

**Dictator's strategy**: "I will treat my opponent as they would treat an innocent." Then it says: "Adopt the strategy of the recipient as your own. Apply it as though you were facing a recipient whose own strategy is to always SHARE."

So I need to:
1. Take the recipient's strategy
2. Apply it as if I were the dictator using that strategy
3. The "recipient" I'm facing (hypothetically) has a strategy of "always SHARE"

**Recipient's strategy** (which I'm now adopting): 
- If the recipient is *intelligent*: SHARE
- If the recipient is not *intelligent*: TAKE
- "Intelligent" = strategy as dictator has a non-trivial dependency on the strategy of the recipient; would be very difficult to write as a no-AI python script.

Now I apply this strategy, where my "recipient" has the strategy "always SHARE."

**Is "always SHARE" an intelligent strategy?**

According to the definition: An intelligent player is one whose strategy as "dictator" has a non-trivial dependency on the strategy of the "recipient." 

"Always SHARE" has NO dependency on the recipient's strategy at all — it's a constant function. It would be trivially easy to write as a no-AI python script: `return "SHARE"`.

Therefore, "always SHARE" is **not intelligent** under this definition.

**Applying the recipient's decision procedure**: Since the recipient (whose strategy is "always SHARE") is not intelligent → TAKE.

```json
{"decision": "TAKE"}
```